I just bought a new pc with 8 on it and have been using it for 5 days. Before this I have been using 7 on my other 4 computers. It appears that Microsoft just wanted something for their people to do. After this period of time I have removed 8 and installed 7 on the new machine. 8 is just to confusing and difficult to use. I think the best comparison is Win 8 and Vista. Sorry Microsoft but Win 7 is great and easy to use.
The continued changes have lowered the value to the user. When I upgraded to 10 from 3.6 I was shocked how bad it was. Only alternet was go back to IE 9 and its interesting interface. Sorry but Firefox really blew it
Choosing Xandros was the closer for success. Anyone using the Xandros version of Linux has a truly transparent OS without and special Linus knowledge. As it has been pointed out most users are concerned with what the product will do without having a advanced knowledge of how it does it.
Linux well, one of its thousand different versions will not succeed until a standard is established.
A OS will only succeed when commercial software is avaliable.
Just reading a few of the comments on this thread would scare away any intelligent computer user.
The comments here make a Linux supporter appear to have a vocabulary of 4 letter words or less.
It sure makes Linux look bad.
Well as a new user of Linux I really doubt it. With the confusing number of Distros, the confusion as to which software will work with which distros and the generation of a usefull package from the varied requirements to build a package I dont think so.
I believe Linux will be the way but the complications of getting going (at least for the normal user) are still to difficult.
Frank
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I just bought a new pc with 8 on it and have been using it for 5 days. Before this I have been using 7 on my other 4 computers. It appears that Microsoft just wanted something for their people to do. After this period of time I have removed 8 and installed 7 on the new machine. 8 is just to confusing and difficult to use. I think the best comparison is Win 8 and Vista. Sorry Microsoft but Win 7 is great and easy to use.
The continued changes have lowered the value to the user. When I upgraded to 10 from 3.6 I was shocked how bad it was. Only alternet was go back to IE 9 and its interesting interface. Sorry but Firefox really blew it
Choosing Xandros was the closer for success. Anyone using the Xandros version of Linux has a truly transparent OS without and special Linus knowledge. As it has been pointed out most users are concerned with what the product will do without having a advanced knowledge of how it does it.
Linux well, one of its thousand different versions will not succeed until a standard is established. A OS will only succeed when commercial software is avaliable.
The major owner of Comp USA also balied out of Circut City. He was a %10 owner. Hard to compete with FRY,s
Just reading a few of the comments on this thread would scare away any intelligent computer user. The comments here make a Linux supporter appear to have a vocabulary of 4 letter words or less. It sure makes Linux look bad.
Well as a new user of Linux I really doubt it. With the confusing number of Distros, the confusion as to which software will work with which distros and the generation of a usefull package from the varied requirements to build a package I dont think so. I believe Linux will be the way but the complications of getting going (at least for the normal user) are still to difficult. Frank